[solved] Eden Audio Quality

Here go for it http://www.2shared.com/audio/xXPV9la_/co...C_new.html

Ahh, how am I going to compare that to the plots in post#70

Ok, two test builds, that's right a blind test which seems fitting for audio issues. Test both, pick the best one. Note the version (order) does not necessarily mean the later one might be better than former other.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14341410/XBMC-audio-test4.zip

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14341410/XBMC-audio-test5.zip

Also, please do not add any advancedsettings.xml tweaks, this introduces too many variables and XBMC should be doing the right thing without them. Fiddling with limiterhold and limiterrelease will only muddy the waters and confuse the results.

Will test in 8 hours, after work.

wow, am i glad i found this post.
i was about to rip my speakers of the wall because thought i had wrecked them.

adding this to advances settings seems to fix my audio quality issues.
i also set headroom to 0.

<advancedsettings>
<audio>
<headroom>0</headroom>
<limiterhold>0</limiterhold>
<limiterrelease>0</limiterrelease>
</audio>
</advancedsettings>

(2012-04-25 09:29)basco Wrote:  i also set headroom to 0.

You can leave that out... It doesn't do anything anymore:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1077564

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(2012-04-25 06:35)davilla Wrote:  Ok, two test builds, that's right a blind test which seems fitting for audio issues. Test both, pick the best one. Note the version (order) does not necessarily mean the later one might be better than former other.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14341410/XBMC-audio-test4.zip

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14341410/XBMC-audio-test5.zip

Same here: will try to test it this evening (in about 10 hours from now)

I guess more people would test if this thread would be moved to OS X specific support.

I cannot test myself as I don't have a AV receiver and all seem to be fine with usb or stereo output.

(2012-04-25 06:35)davilla Wrote:  Ok, two test builds, that's right a blind test which seems fitting for audio issues. Test both, pick the best one. Note the version (order) does not necessarily mean the later one might be better than former other.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14341410/XBMC-audio-test4.zip

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14341410/XBMC-audio-test5.zip

Also, please do not add any advancedsettings.xml tweaks, this introduces too many variables and XBMC should be doing the right thing without them. Fiddling with limiterhold and limiterrelease will only muddy the waters and confuse the results.

As always, tested with clean userdata and no tweaks whatsoever. Simply changed to HDMI output in the settings.

Test4 still sounds like as bad, but test5 actually sounds great and i cannot hear anything wrong with it. Overall sound volume is on par with other OSX apps, and the volume level is not going up and down. I thought i detected a small bit of distortion but that was probably my imagination.

But this was just a quick test, now i have to get something to eat and then listen some more.

move thread to osx section...

@zokkel; all good. just, as you pointed out, sometimes it's good to think twice when choosing words, that was really my main point. i understood from the very beginning you weren't trying to be naughty.